Will Ospreay Shouts Out Tony Khan For Paying For His Neck Surgery, Discusses Talent He Spoke With Beforehand: It Was More Expensive Than My F**king House

Will Ospreay shouts out Tony Khan for paying for his neck surgery last year, noting how expensive the surgery was for him.

In March of this year, Ospreay would return from a long layoff due to undergoing neck surgery, taking the fight to Jon Moxley and the Death Riders. Since returning, Ospreay has dealt with the reality of having to change as a wrestler due to the injury, and has seemingly now aligned with the faction. For Ospreay, it was always in his mind that he may not return to the ring following the surgery.

While speaking to Forbes in a new interview, Will Ospreay was asked if he ever thought of his career being over while on the shelf, while also noting that Tony Khan paid for his surgery, which was more expensive than his ‘fucking house’.

“I mean, that always kind of creeped in, but I knew I was going to do everything physically possible to make this go as quickly as possible and get back in the ring. It was always a conversation, and I had great phone calls with my surgeon, Dr. Wallace, who deserves the biggest shoutout because he’s given me a second chance at having a career doing this. I mean, 10 years ago, this was the type of thing that medically disqualified you from wrestling. So the fact that medical science has come so far, man, I’m just grateful and so blessed. And I must give the biggest shoutout to Tony [Khan] for paying for that surgery because the moment I saw that f****** bill — bro, it was more expensive than my f****** house. It was crazy.”

Additionally, Ospreay spoke about the AEW Talent he discussed his neck surgery with, including Adam Copeland, Kyle O’Reilly and more.

“Yeah, I spoke with Adam Copeland quite a lot about it, just because I guess he’s kind of the godfather of this surgery. He’s had three of them. I think he’s had a [triple fusion neck surgery]. I remember when I got told how severe it was because I didn’t realize how bad it actually was. I’d been wrestling on it for like 10 months. It only really started getting bad around May, and then it started f****** destroying me. But I spoke to him, and he gave me the whole backstory of when he found out about his surgery and what was going to happen. He gave me his number to keep in contact because he knows it can get really depressing at times. So if I ever needed to vent or bullshit, he was always a great person to call or text about stuff. There were a lot of times he was in London too, so I got to chat with him during good hours. I never felt like I’d text him and have to wait until the next morning because of the time zones. So he was really good. I spoke with Kyle O’Reilly as well. He was great. I spoke with Roddy and Bryan Danielson a little bit, but not much. Everybody’s just been super cool because it really is such a good group of people backstage. I feel like news got around very quickly, and it was one of those things where it was really lovely having the support of my peers and everybody wishing for me to come back.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Ospreay spoke about the moves he can no longer use. You can read more about that here.